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On 10/10/06 Jeffrey Race wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:17:12 -0500, Al Heath wrote:
> 
> > > Anyway I tried restoring XP
> > >several times and various other shrinking attempts but ended up 
> using
> > >OS/2's LVM to complete wipe the disk and repartition as I wanted 
> as XP also
> > >wouldn't shrink down as far as I wanted due to some "non 
> relocateable
> > >files" (and also it wouldn't boot away after shrinking to various 
> attempted
> > >sizes ... anyway, I did do various partition restores in between 
> and
> > >booting reverified until after trying again and again I finally 
> gave up and
> > >wiped it from the machine.)  
> 
> Do I understand that repartitioning the T43 after XP has gone NTFS at
> virgin boot means I destroy the XP source files?     (Supposed to be
> hidden somewhere, I think)
> 
> I don't think I want to do that.

You won't destroy that hidden FAT32 partition but it is advisable that if 
you think you will ever need the XP factory restore discs you should create 
them before you do anything.  A couple years ago IBM gave me a hard time 
about sending me the factory restore discs, but they finally did so after 
some convincing.  Create the factory restore discs, and not the backup 
discs.  See warning below.

Unless you really need the XP partition it is best for sizing to recreate 
it from the factory restore discs and before windoze converts itself to 
NTFS, use DFSee to resize the beast when it is formatted as FAT32, to 
something reasonable (or at least what microshaft considers reasonable but 
anyone else bloated).  Warning though: using the builtin backup process 
will most likely repartition your drive into one big one and remove the 
emergency partition, so if at all possible run the install from within the 
hidden restore partition or off of the newly created factory restore discs 
which will recreate everything to the factory install setup.

Without reinstalling windoze, about the best you may be able to do 
shrinking XP is maybe in half because of the way NTFS parses data on the 
partition and refuses to move it.  Here I was only able to shrink a 56GB 
partition down to about 28GB until I found out about the FAT32 trick.  I 
was able to shrink XP on my T42p down to about 6GB, but it kept eating 
itself after running a short time, so I finally ended up at 16GB and it 
hasn't complained since, though I rarely run it.   Its a waste of drive 
space.

Mark



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